Kosovo Bows to US, NATO Pressure, Puts Off Plan to Create Army

World | April 8, 2017, Saturday // 13:01
Bulgaria: Kosovo Bows to US, NATO Pressure, Puts Off Plan to Create Army photo: BGNES

Kosovo President Hashim Thaci bowed to pressure from traditional allies the United States and NATO on Friday by putting off plans to establish an army strongly opposed by the country's minority Serbs, Voice of America radio reports.

Nearly two decades after the Kosovo war, relations between Serbia and the ethnic Albanian-majority government in Kosovo remain strained. Serbia continues to regard Kosovo, which declared independence in 2008, as a renegade province.

Thaci last month found a way to bypass Serb opposition in parliament to constitutional amendments required for an army by drafting changes to an existing law on the Kosovo Security Forces that would allow the KSF to acquire heavy weapons. This would effectively turn it into a military force.

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